What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

Radio is the playground of coincidence.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.